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"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint."
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"What can you do to ensure that your voice value translates into impression value?"
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"Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings."
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"Heaven resonates when one sings wholeheartedly."
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"You won't write, won't ya??I just focus on the negative!"
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"There are things known-things experienced, felt, and understood-that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice."
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"If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act-truth is always subversive."
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"Hell's bells, irony blows."
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"In a man's letters his soul lies naked."
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"Life is a sacred story."
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"Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
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"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint."
Expression
"I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint."
People
"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
Life
"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
Creativity
"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore."
Woman
"One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work."
Love
"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
Creativity
"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."
Beauty
"I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree."
Night
"It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it."
Time
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